The first two eps air tonight, I think they are:The Vulcan HelloBattle at the Binary Stars

I'm not paying for the exclusive cbs service but we do have a firestick that's hacked here at home and it usually produces new shows no matter where they come from. Iam hoping it's a good watch seeing as how Orville has been alright so far, be great if this was too or even better.

Edit* the first epp will be on CBS at 8pm tonight

"I am a scientist,I don't think I observe"MST3K"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"AE

Watched the first two. Was not impressed on many counts.As a Sci-Fi show, that was a 7/10 start, could do with improvement.As a Star Trek show, that was a 4/10 start. Not really Trek like in many ways and way too many things out of place and just plain wrong.

The tech seems a little advanced for the time period, but I get it, they wanted to jazz it up for a modern approach, or at least keep the JJ "feel" of trek going. I had a few problems with it and I agree with your ratings EC. Iam still going to watch the series and see where it goes. Iam interested to see what the other characters will be like.

"I am a scientist,I don't think I observe"MST3K"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"AE

Yeah, I watched the first couple episodes so far. It's ok, but it definitely does not take place in the prime universe. There were an awful lot of holes, the bridge of the Shenzou is on the bottom of the saucer? and has wrap around windows? Hopefully that trend doesn't continue with the Discovery. It's also a disappointment that we don't see the titular ship in the entire two hour pilot. The visual portrayal of the Klingons was a disappointment, what was with the hull armor made of Klingon corpses? I agree that the Klingon's diction was way too slow, almost like each syllable took a whole breath, but I was impressed that they thought to tie an obscure, non-canon reference like The Black Fleet in alongside Sto'Vo'Kor. The hybrid phaser/laser pistol was a neat prop, but it falls in along side the uniforms and the Klingon appearance as something that they didn't really need to change.

JJ's Kelvin timeline caught a lot of flack for rebooting the universe, but at least they tried to make things tie in visually, and they gave themselves the Alternate universe excuse, which is explicitly denied here.

The only reason we have CBS All Access at my house is because we can't afford cable anymore. Between Amazon Prime, Netflix, CBS AA, Hulu and Playstation Vue, we get almost everything we watched on Comcast at half the price.

One thing that I found odd was the whole retrieve the Klingon corpses deal, like I get that the ship was a burial ground artifact but throughout trek I always got the impression that when one died their body was a useless shell to be disposed of. Iam no expert on Klingons tho lol. Just seemed like the ripped off the reavers tying bodies to their ships from Firefly.

"I am a scientist,I don't think I observe"MST3K"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"AE

I got a chance to watch some of this. I do not like like it, at all. But this latest episode seemed to be better in terms of Trek style. But only marginally. I cannot understand how this has been renewed for a second season.